Blue Stone Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Blue Stone Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- plain-soffit-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blue Stone Farmhouse, Blue Stone Lane, Mawdesley, L40 2RJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 503 151
- Coordinates
- 53.63095, -2.75208
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blue Stone Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse that has been altered and is now used as a house. It is constructed of handmade brick with a stone-coloured tiled roof. The building has a double-depth, two-bay plan and features a short outshut at the rear of the second bay. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a symmetrical facade with gable chimneys. There is a gabled single-storey porch that has a round-headed outer opening and a modern glazed inner door. On each floor, there are two windows, all of which are three-light sliding sashes with four panes in each light. The ground floor windows have segmental heads.
At the rear, a notable feature is the stairlight, which is a wooden cross-window with lead cames that create very small panes, similar to the windows at Lane Ends House on Smithy Lane. The interior has not been inspected but is believed to contain large chamfered beams. There is a modern addition at the left end of the farmhouse that matches the style and materials of the original building but is not included in the listing.
Local climate
Blue Stone Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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